(Imam W. Deen Mohammed gave this First Sunday Public Address on Oct. 2, 2005, at the Homewood Hotel, 17400 S. Halsted, Home-wood, II.) PART 2 When I was taking a few courses in junior college, I remember reading in a text that one of the students had, that the pursuit of happiness is understood as the right to have property. Every citizen in these United States has the right to have property of their own. We know what G-d says to us in our religions - I am a student of the Bible and the text of other religions, too. But I study mainly the Bible and our Holy Book, the Quran. I remember reading in the Bible references to this same right or inborn nature and its wonderful properties and how these properties are to be protected by G-d, Scripture and the conscious righteous people, so that no person will be deprived of those rights. And if they ever are deprived, it is the duty of the conscious righteous people to go to the aid of those persons or individuals, who have been robbed of their rights or denied their rights. We come now to human life and its spiritual or psychological dynamics. We read in the dictionary the meaning of dynamics, and I want you to understand how I am using this word. So I am reading the entry that fits this language I am using here now. Dynamics is pertaining to energy, motion in relation to force. Envisioning the conclusion of this world, we find that the ancient people of religion and the words of the seers and the wise tell us how mans world will come to a conclusion. We see this as wisdom, and we see much of it as prophecy. I wont use any of that language referring to the end of time in an attempt to give that picture of the last days. Most of us in church life or in mosque life or in whatever religion you have, I am sure that you are aware of the many pictures given to us of the last days. Of natural causes, human life will be pressured into moving forward. Also by the extending or intensifying of pressure bringing to bear more pressure, pressure behind pressure on human life, it is forging a meeting before Him. I am giving you the language of Quran. Him means Allah. The language of the Quran is one pressure behind another, pressuring the hearts of the people. Sometimes, it will become so unbearable, people will wonder, Is there a G-d. The pressure will have become so much on them. In another focus on the dynamics of human survival and progress, it is revealed that this pressure and struggle in the soul will bring the human perception to be eye-to-eye with the Fires of Hell. You shall be brought closer and closer, and you shall see Hell with clear vision, with sure perception or correct perception. This is Quran. But reference to this is also in the Bible. In fact, whatever came to us in the Quran, it came to us addressing what had come before to the people called Jews and Christians, both called by us as given to us in our Sacred Book, The People of The Book, meaning the people of the Scriptures that were revealed to Abraham, Moses and Jesus Christ - peace be on them all - and the many others whom I didnt mention. Though religion has been the worlds biggest oppressor, the Quran says religions merits are more than the demerits. The Qurans fresh air way of addressing prophetic End of Time is intended for the sharpening of human perception.
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